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Well, crap. I answered my own question again. I waded through the Spring source code and found that the HashMap for each returned record contains the exact same objects that are returned by JDBC's ResultSet.getObject() method.

So, in my case, for a MySQL column of type LONGVARBINARY (which is actually intepreted at table-creation time as a LONGBLOB) I get back a byte array.